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...SPREAD YOUR BETS Even if you want to pick individual stocks, placing most of your equity investments in a broad index fund, like Vanguard Total Stock Market, remains the best way to keep a corporate crook from blowing the bulk of your wealth to bits. And remember: it's at frightening times just like these that stocks offer the highest future returns. So cover yourself but don't bail out of the market entirely. --By Jason Zweig. With reporting by Cybele Weisser
...road. So bonds, unlike stocks, almost never go to zero, making them the ultimate trust-no-one investment. What's more, they can provide ballast for a sinking stock portfolio. "Bonds have actually outperformed stocks over the last five years," points out portfolio manager Ian McKinnon of the Vanguard Group. While stocks have gained 6.1% annually over that period (and lost a ton lately), bonds have earned better than 7% per year...
...inflation rate. Put them in your IRA or other retirement account, where their quirky tax features won't "drive you stark raving mad," as Loomis Sayles Bond Fund manager Daniel Fuss puts it. You can buy tips directly from the government, at www.publicdebt.treas.gov/sec/seciis.htm or in a fund from Vanguard or Pimco...
...taxable account, municipal bonds look good right now, says Vanguard's McKinnon. Low-cost muni funds are available from Vanguard, as well as from Fidelity, T. Rowe Price and USAA, with yields of 3% to 4%, tax free. McKinnon also likes REIT funds, which invest not in bonds but in the income-rich shares of real estate investment trusts. Vanguard's REIT fund yielded 5.3% last year; another economical choice, Cohen & Steers Realty Shares, yields...
TIME senior writer Daniel Kadlec questions five pros: Ron Baron, manager of Baron Asset Fund; Eleanor Blayney, a financial planner at Sullivan Bruyette Speros & Blayney; Eric McKissack, a manager at Ariel Mutual Funds; Gary Pilgrim, president of PBHG Funds; and Gus Sauter, manager of the Vanguard 500 Index fund. Our panelists agree that diversified mutual funds are best for those with little penchant for serious stock research. For investors who want to buy individual stocks and are willing to do some homework, our pros offer tips on what to hold--and when to fold...